Container with individual inscription



April 22, 1952 s, BORN 2,593,966

CONTAINER WITH INDIVIDUAL INSCRIPTION Filed Feb. 25, 1949 INVENTOR.SAMUEL H. BORN Patented A1... 22, 1952 CONTAINER WITH INDIVIDUALINSCRIPTION Samuel H. Born, Bethlehem, Pa.

Application February 23, 1949, Serial No. 77,779

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a package forcandy, stockings or other similar small articles which can be given asifts.

More particularly, the invention relates to an improved package forcandy, stockings or other similar articles which is provided with anarea which may be inscribed with an appropriate marking by the purchaserprior to giving the package to the person for whom it was purchased, sothat the inscription will form a groove or impressed effect in the saidarea.

Still further, while the package of the present invention is especiallywell adapted as a container for candy it may be used equally well as apackage for stockings or other small articles which can appropriately begiven as gifts.

Another object of the present invention proposes providing an area ofthe package with a piece of metal foil or other similar materialarranged in a manner to be impressed with the aid of any blunt pointedstylus, pen, pencil or any other writing instrument, with an appropriatemarking befitting the occasion on which the gift writing instruments, sothat the marking will stand out more clearly.

It is the object of a modification of the present invention to form themetal foil or other similar material upon which the marking is to beimpressed with appropriately located lines of perforations dividing offthe center of the metal foil or other similar material so that themarking may be impressed within the divided off area to be torn from theremainder thereof and saved after the package has been emptied of itscontents.

It is a still further object of the present invention to construct anovel package for candy, stockings or other similar small articles whichis simple and durable and which can be manufactured and sold at areasonable cost.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a packa e for P 2 I candy constructed inaccordance with the present invention and as it appears when purchased.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the package as it appears after being impressedby the purchaser.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged partial longitudinal sectional view taken on theline 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the package constructed in accordance with amodification of the present invention, prior to being impressed.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged partial longitudinal sectional view taken on theline 55 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a similar view to Fig. l, but showing a modified form of theinvention.

The package for candy, stockings or other similar small articles,according to the first form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3,includes a box l0 having a wall I l. The wall II is preferably the topwall of the cover of the box Ill. The wall I I, see Fig. 3, is comprisedof abase of heavy cardboard [2 covered with an appropriately coloredsheet of paper I3. A paddingl l of any known type is interposed betweenthe base 12 and the sheet of paper l3. The top face of the sheet ofpaper I3 is imprinted with any desired indicia; such as the name of themaker of the enclosed chocolates or any other printed material. Theentire box It! is enclosed within a sheet of'transparent material l5;such as cellophane.

Interposed between the sheet of paper I3 and the sheet of transparentmaterial 15, there is a piece of material 16 which may be impressed bythe purchaser or other person with an appropriate marking prior togiving the package to the person for whom it was purchased. The piece ofmaterial IB is preferably formed of a metallic foil and is secured inposition by a layer of mucilage or other adhesive material I1; however,the piece of metallic material I6 may be formed of any material whichcan be suitably impressed by a blunt stylus, or the like, not shown.

In Fig. 1, the package is shown as it appears when purchased by thecustomer and in Fig. 2 the package is shown as it appears after beingimpressed with an appropriate Christmas greeting by the purchaser of thepackage. While the piece of metallic material IE is shown applied to apackage having a padded wall, this is by way of illustration only, asthe piece of metallic material IB may also be applied to a wall which isnot padded. However, it has been found that if the wall to which thepiece of metallic material I8 is applied is padded that the same may bemore heavily impressed with the result that the marking stands out moreclearly and can be more easily read.

, suitable means. 'theiinvention'is similar .to the previous forms."While Ih'ave illustrated and described the pre In the modification ofthe invention shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the construction of the package Iis similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3, except that the center area l6of the piece of metallic material [6 is divided off by lines ofperforations l8. It is this center area [6 of the piece of metallicmaterial [6 which is to be impressed. 'I he edges of the piece ofmetallic material i6, outside of the perforations 18, are secured to thetop face of the sheet of paper I3 by the mucilage or other adhesivematerial H leaving the center area l6 of the piece of metallic materialI6 free of the sheet of paper l3.

With this construction, before or after the package has been emptied ofits contents, the center area le of the piece of metallic material l6,having the impressed markingp may be ,sepa

- rated from the package along the lines of per forations [8 so that themarking maybe saved by the receiver of the package.

- -Inotherrespects this form of the invention is similar to thefirstiform and like reference nurmerals-identiiylike parts in each ofthe several views.

On the drawing, the sheet of metallic material is shown applied to boxesfor containing chocolates, butthis is'by way of illustration only, as

the present invention isequally well adapted to boxes for containingother small-gift articles and maybe applied to a wall of the box otherthan the top wall.

) InfFig. 6", a container H3" is shown "to be in the form of a box witha coverv on which a meta'llic material it" is held in position by any Inother respects this form of derredembodiments of my invention, it isto'be understood that I do not limit myself to the pre- I,'ciseiconstructions herein disclosed and the right, is reserved to allchanges and-modifications com- ,ing'within the scope of the invention asdefined the appended-claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim-as'nem-and desire tosecure by-United 's-states Letters Patent is:

laAninscription panel fora package h a top wall, comprising .a paddingcovering the of perforations dividing off a center area of said piece ofmetal foil which is to be impressed with a message of greeting, and anadhesive securing the edge portions of said piece of metal foil outwardof said lines of perforations to the adjacent face of said padding,whereby the message impressed center area can be separated from theremainder of the piece of impressible metal foil when .the package is.to be discarded.

2. Ari inscription panel for a package having a top wall, comprising apadding covering the outer face of the top Wall, a piece of impressiblemetal foil positioned on said padding so arranged and constructed thatsaid padding provides a soft underlining for said piece of metal foilpermitlting a. message to be impressed therein, lines of perforationsdividing 01f a center area of said piece of metal-foil which is to beimpressed with .a message of greeting, and an adhesive securing the edgeportions of said piece of metal foil outward'ofr said lines ofperforations to the adjacent face .ofsaid padding, whereby .the messageimpressed center area can be separated from the remainder of the pieceof impressible metalfoil when the package is to be discarded, and acover of .flexible nonimpressible transparent ,material enclosing thebox and having a portion extended across the exposed face of said pieceof impressible Inetal foil, so arranged and constructed that its normalposition over said piece of impressible metal foil to protect the.impressed message.

- SAMUEL H. BORN seamstress CITED The following references are -ofrecord in the file of this patent:

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